Word Meanings - UNBOSOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton.
Related words: (words related to UNBOSOM)
- CONFESSION
The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary - CONFIDENCE
1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in - CONFESSER
One who makes a confession. - CONFESSIONAL
Pertaining to a confession of faith. Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds. - CONFESSIONALISM
An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff. - CONFESSIONIST
One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu. - UNBOSOM
To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - DISCLOSE
Disclosure. Shak. Young. - CONFESSIONALIST
A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. Boucher - OFTEN
Frequently; many times; not seldom. - CONFESSIONARY
A confessional. Johnson. - REVEAL
1. To make known ; to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine - CONFESSORSHIP
The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman. - CONFESSARY
One who makes a confession. Bp. Hall. - DISCLOSED
Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans. - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - REVEALABLE
Capable of being revealed. -- Re*veal"a*ble*ness, n. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - OFTENSITH
Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne. - SELF-CONFIDENCE
The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield. - UNOFTEN
Not often. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology. - IRREVEALABLE
Incapable of being revealed. -- Ir`re*veal"a*bly, adv.